Music On Walls had the chance to discuss with Lewis Rossignol about his recent collaboration with hip-hop artist Tylor the Creator and the place that music has in his creation process.
MoW : Can you tell MoW why you chose to create artwork inspired by music?
LR : I grew up during the 80s and 90s before iTunes and streaming music, so I remember buying new tapes and CDs and being so excited to get home and put it in my stereo and listen to it for the first time while looking through the booklet at all the album art. I think that caused me to always think of visual art and music as intrinsically connected. I do a lot of portraits, and so naturally portraits of musicians was something I was drawn to doing. I won’t do a portrait of a musician unless I enjoy and respect their music, so all of the portraits here are people who inspire me in one way or another. The punk rocker piece was inspired after a few days straight of listening to Rancid and the Clash. I was just in that mood.
